If I've posted this here before, please excuse me.
It was in the summer of '69. Me and 4 friends--Fred, Darryl, Bruce and Denny-- were at one of the weekly Love-Ins at Griffith Park in L.A.
We had just been listening to one band and when they finished their set we knew it'd be 20--30 minutes before the next band started, so we took a walk.
All of us had been trying to score but it was the end of the summer and, just like EVERY late summer, it was dry. So it was kind of a bummer cause we had no weed nada damn crumb.
So we go for a kind of hike on this trail. We see a log under some trees and figure we'll stop there and sit for a few minutes then mosey on back to the concert.
Just before we get to the log Darryl veers off to pee behind some bushes.
When the rest of us get to the log our eyes bugged out.
Sitting there, in the middle of the log, were 3 huge joints and 3 wooden matches!!!
It was so freaky that I smelled one of the joints--maybe they were tobacco.
Nope, it was marijuana allright. Either someone got so stoned they forgot 'em or maybe left them there as a gift.
We deciede to play a joke on Darryl.
I put the 3 joints on top of the Easy Rider-style hat I was wearing.
Darryl comes back and sits down.
So we're like
godfu@kingdam I wish we had some weed.
I'm still standing and I say "wait, let's pray to the God of Marijuana."
"Go for it."
So I close my eyes , make that little tent thing with my hands people do when they pray and say "Oh most wonderful God Of Marijuana, please bless us with some of your precious bounty", put my palms up and bowed my head.
The joints fell into my hands, seemingly from the sky.
Darryl actually
fell off the log.
Anyway we smoked the joints and got pretty damn high.
We finish and head back beautifully buzzed, and just as we arrive in the band area, The Youngbloods come onstage and open with Get Together.
Perfect timing for a perfect day.
P.S. We never told Darryl. Not too long after that he became a Jesus Freak and the last time I saw him he was taking off with a bunch of fellow freaks in a VW micro-bus to travel the county and save souls, and as far as I know still believes to this day the joints fell straight from heaven.
P.P.S. Many times since then--like about 20 times or so--I have left 3 joints and 3 kitchen matches on park benches or along trails, and I know Bruce has done it at least a few times as well.